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I had mentioned in the earlier newsletter that we made four offers for faculty positions in our ECE department for Fall 2001 in the areas of computer architecture, VLSI design, networking, and signal and image processing.
I am pleased to announce that Ying Wu has accepted our offer for a faculty position as an Assistant Professor starting September 1, 2001. Ying is expected to receive his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in July 2001 under his advisor, Prof. Thomas Huang. His research interests are in signal and image processing. He had visited us and given a seminar on March 14 on "Capturing and Recognizing Human Motion in Video Sequences."
Please join me in welcoming Ying Wu to our department.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Networks and Communications Seminar
DATE: Thursday, April 19, 2001
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Technological Institute - Room A230
TITLE: Optimal Resource Allocation in Multi-Class Networks with
User-Specified Utility Functions
SPEAKER: Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Motorola
Tuesday, April 17, 2001: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room A230
Jonathan Geisler
"Performance Coupling for Sequential and Parallel Applications"
Committee Members: V. Taylor (chairperson), L. Henschen,
P. Scheuermann, J. Schopf, and I. Foster
Professor Prith Banerjee is traveling to San Diego and San Jose, CA, April 19-20, to attend a DARPA PI meeting in San Diego, and visit Synplicity in San Jose.
Professor Prem Kumar is traveling to Durham, NC, April 16-18. He is an invited panel member for a convocation for the new Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems at Duke University.
Professor Manijeh Razeghi gave two invited talks, "Enabling Technologies for the 21st Century," "Overview of CQD Research Activity," and Review of Center for Optoelectronic Devices, Interconnects, and Packaging (COEDIP), University of Arizona, Tucson, April 11-13, 2001.
Professor Valerie Taylor traveled to Los Angeles, CA, April 8-12, to participate in the GriPhyN [Grid Physics Network] All-Hands Meeting, and attend the external Advisory Committee meeting.
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